Telephone-desk.



No. 67!,577. Patented'Apr. 9, IBM,

C. E. BARTHOLOMEW.

TELEPHONE DESK.

(Application filed July 23, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEICE.

CHARLES E. BARTHOLOMEW, OF HAMILTON, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN F.STEVENSON, OF SAME PLACE.

TELEPHONE-DESK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 671,577, dated April 9,1901.

Application filed July 23, 1900. Serial No. 24,501. (No model.) A

To all w/tmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. BARTHOLO- MEW, a citizen of Canada,residing at Hamilton, in the county of Wen tworth and Province ofOntario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTelephone- Desks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to improvements in telephone-desks in which awriting-desk with a detachable paper-roll underneath is capal 5 ble ofextending the paper over the desk from the front and bringing said paperwhen written upon through small rollers to the rear and downward, saiddesk capable of being secured to the rigid projecting cover of a tele-2o phone-battery box or to the wall at the righthand side thereof.

The objects of my invention are,first,to provide a writing-desk in closeproximity to a telephone for the convenience of Writing down telephonicmessages while holding the eartrumpet by the left hand to the ear;second, to afford facilities for tearing olf each message received, and,third, to retain the messages covering a period of time on acontinuouslength of paper. Iattain these objects by the mechanism illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of myimproved.

telephone-desk attached to a wall, one of the 5 desk-supporting bracketsbeing removed to show the paper-knife, Fig. 2 is a plan of the sameattached to the rigid projecting cover of a telephone-battery box, thetwo side wallfastening brackets being removed. Fig. 3 is an enlargedside elevation of the rear end of the desk, shown broken; and Fig. 4. isaview of one of the fastenings to fasten the brackets to the under sideof the desk and to the wallplate. 5 Similar characters refer to similarparts throughout the several views.

In the drawings the writing-desk is indicated by A, the side bracketswhich support the same by B, the transverse paper-roll by O, and thepaper from off the roll by 2. This paper-roll is supported at the frontend of l in said hangers. The said brackets 13 are secured to the underside of the desk by means of suitable fastenings F and to the wall-plateG by similar fastenings H. These fastenings F and H are secured to theunder side of the desk and to the wall plate by screws in such a mannerthat Will enable the desk to be released from the brackets by simplyloosening one screw each in said fastenings by reason of the depth ofeach fasteningopening 5 being a shade less in depth than the thicknessor diameter of the bracket. This fastening F is shown in enlarged detailin the drawings. The brackets may also be removed from the wall-plate ina similar manner.

The transverse roller I is journaled at the rear end of the desk in thebearings J, which are secured to the sides of the desk. The rear ends ofthese bearings extend upward and have slots 7 to receive the journal atthe ends of the upper transverse roller K. This roller presses upon thesheet of paper 2 on the lower roller and passes from the front of thedesk when the roller I is revolved by means of its right-hand crank M onthe side extended journal of the roller I. Slight tension-springs N areloosely attached to the ends of these small roller-journals to affordproper pressure and tension to the paper,which passes between saidrollers when operated upon by the said crank, as aforesaid. 0

P is a weight on the paper-r0110 and is slotted ateach end to enable itto slide on the hangers E and follow the courseof or the diameter of thepaper'roll whether there be much or little paper comprising theroll. Thetrans- 5 verse paper-knife R extends slightly to the rear of the rollerI and is secured to the underside of the desk. The paper2,hanging frombetween these two small rollers, may be taken hold of and cut ofi bymeans of this knife, I00 when desired or at a period of time. It will beperceived that the writing is done on the pape r which ison the desk,and the periphcry of the lower small roller may be on the same plane asthe desk or slightly above. This lower roller revolves the upper rollerby friction.

To attach this desk to the upper side projecting and rigid cover S. of atelephonebattery box, the said desk is released from the wall-plate G,as previously mentioned, and the adjustable double and parallel rod Tapplied. The desk ends of this double rod are a suitable distance apartto afford stability and pass through the sockets U, which are secured tothe under side of the desk and close to the sides thereof. These socketsare of similar construction and substantially the same as the fasteningsF and H of the brackets B and can rigidly secure the said double rod Tto the desk by means of their screws. This double rod extends over andon the telephone-box cover S, which has the same fall toward the frontas the desk, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The telephone end ofthis rod T is bent or formed as a lip 6, which grips the projecting sideof the cover S of the aforesaid telephone-battery box, and the oppositeprojecting side of said coveris pressed against the side plate V of theunder flange 8, which grips the said cover S. This plateVis capable ofsliding on the double rod T to adjust itself to varying widths of coversS. The two ends of this rod T are screwed at 9 for the nuts Y in orderto tighten the desk to the cover S, as seen in Fig. 2 of the drawings;This view (Fig. 2) shows the double rod attachment extended out almostto its utmost 1 extent. When the said nuts are screwed on', the desk issecurely fastened by means of the grip 6 and the adjustable plate V,with lower flange 8 on the under side of the cover Sand the rods T onthe upper side of said cover.

When this desk is attached to the telephoneloat-tery box, the brackets Bwill not be necessary, though the desk is so constructed as to becapable of attachment to a wall or to a telephone-battery box, as setforth.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of thisinvention may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scopethereof. Hence What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

A writing-desk of the character described comprising supporting-bracketssecured to the rear end and sides thereof and to a wallplate, releasablefastenings for said brackets,

a transverse paper-roll journaled underneath

